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Sugar Jones 🤘🏽
@SugarJones
she/her/ella ✨ dreamer ✨ skater ✨ camper ✨ glamper ✨ lover of life ✨ heart of fire 🔥
Back in San Diego, babes! ⛱️ Katılım Nisan 2008
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@Lisa_Frame @AngEngland Come out to San Diego for a few days!
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@PraveenPerera Haha, you might be onto the root cause!
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Took my 7yr old to his annual pediatric dentist appt last month (near Seattle) and the dentist found 4 cavities in his baby teeth, all needing filling and one needed a cap.
The dentist said this had to be done with general anesthesia. Cost $2,750.
We found it bizarre to have to put a 7yr old under general anesthesia, outside of a hospital, in a small clinic above a Starbucks, with full intubation and put on a ventilator, just to fill 4 cavities in baby teeth that would fall off on their own anyway.
The dentist insisted the intervention was necessary because these teeth won't fall off in 5 years, and one of the cavities was almost guaranteed to become problematic. And that general anesthesia was required because of the length of the intervention.
We had a bad feeling about all of this, and declined the procedure after considering the risks of general anesthesia outside of a hospital. The dentist gave my wife a lecture about how this is totally safe and they do it all the time, and that we should take some time to think about it, but we should come again after the summer to talk with them again and reconsider our decision. The dentist insisted this was the only way to proceed and that it would be very imprudent to postpone it. The entire rant made the whole thing feel even more shady to me. It felt like a Hertz rep trying to sell me car insurance at the airport.
We're now in Malta, and took the kid to a local dentist for a second opinion. We thought we'd ask the dentist if we could do the fillings one by one, over multiple sessions, in order to avoid any sedation.
And guess what? This dentist took a look at the kid's teeth, and couldn't find anything! Zero cavities. Perfectly healthy teeth. Not even a cleaning was required. We paid €15 and were sent home.
Now, the Maltese dentist didn't do an x-ray. They said it would be an over-intervention to order an x-ray with no visible signs of decay. The Seattle dentist does an x-ray every year, and found the cavities from the latest x-ray. They never sent us the x-rays though.
Is there a chance the Seattle dentist was right, or is this a classic case of violating the Hippocratic Oath for personal gain? The insistence on general anesthesia just didn't sit well with me, and smelled of malpractice in an attempt to do this procedure quickly and more conveniently (plus charge a lot more).
What's your interpretation?
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"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." — GregoryMcKeown #quote
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Oh shit... I forgot I wrote this, too. I guess I needed to remember some things. Thanks, Meta!!!
Sugar Jones 🤘🏽@SugarJones
It might be the full moon meditations I’ve been doing, but I’m literally aghast at the fact that we are all just actively participating in a broken system that we have to keep playing so we can, you know, LIVE… the whole time relinquish our fucking power to idiots…
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@Podlady Hahaha... thankfully, I never see that. My algorithm sends me cat videos, joke memes about work, and travel videos that make me insanely jealous. No deep fry chow downs.
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I forgot I wrote this. I believe I was enjoying some veggies at the time...
Sugar Jones 🤘🏽@SugarJones
Love is the secret of life. It’s a candle in the darkness. It’s a blanket in the cold. It’s a quiet walk in a meadow with a soul that knows yours. Love is the secret. Now you know.
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